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No. 100,768. Patentea Mark. 15, 1870.

H'IRA'M IG'RYAH'AM, oF ARMADA, MICHIGAN.

'Lemm Patent No. 100,768, amd Mai-ch 15, 1 87o mmovmmm' im' Honensnone- The Seedule re'fon'ed to iu these Lettem'atent makingpart of'the hame.

To all whom 'itnmy concern:

Be it known 'that I, HIBAM INGRAHAM, of 'Arma- 'hneounty of Maelomb, and State of Michigan, have invent'el .a f new an' useful Improvement in Horse-` shoes; and I dodeclare that the following is'a' true 'hud accurate description thereof, reference being. had

'to the aooompanying drztwings and 'to' the: letters of reference iliarked thereon and 'being' a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a; perspeoti-ve view'of myinvention. Eigure 2 is 'a section of the some,l showing the shape of the iron used. iu its construction. v 'The object of this invention isto oonstructa` horse-v shoe,.which, while eqnaliy' as lasting as those "constructed in the ordinary way, will; by theform-in which it ismade, eifeotually prevent elay or snow from ciogging the foot. I

In orderto eccompiisli ,this end I make the -shoe of whatl is terme'd half-roundV iron, of any suitable size, beatinto the proper form, t'urning up the euds to'form/theheehcalks A, when the toe-eoiks'B may be secured 'and attached in' the u'sual way.

channel,- 0, should he'rna'de outside the curve'i' of theconvexity of the shoe, to receive the nail-heads with which the shoe is seeured' to the foot. This channel maybe out inside the curve of the convexity, but'I deem the outside'the better position' for it.

, By constructing the shoein the manner above described, I save more than half the labor usuaily expended upon a. borseshoe, besides'entirely preventing theoeumuiation'of mud or snow in the foot.

What I. olaim as myiiuvention. nd desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- i As a new articleof manufaoture, a horseshoe e'onstruoted of half-round iron; ns- 'nd'for the purposes set forth.

HIRAM INGRAHAM. Witnesses: 

